The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 25 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte LEE EVAN NAKAMURA and STEWART EUGENE TATE Appeal No. 2004-2245 Application No. 10/145,544 HEARD: March 10, 2005 Before KRASS, BARRY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 52-60 and 76-81. The invention is directed to the retrieval of data from an in-memory database table stored in a computer. In particular, stored descriptors, which reference an in-memory database table, are stored in a high-speed index. The stored descriptors are mapped to location information in a header area of the in-memory database table, and the location information is then used to access data stored in a data area of the in-memory database table. -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007